Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 970
steam-engine, or any other convenient first mover, through the medium of geering or drums. D is aninclined shoot, down which the lumps of crude gutta percha are dropped against the knives of the re-volving plate B, by which they are cut into slices of a thickness corresponding to the degree of…
Mechanical engineering
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